⁶ His body looked like a precious gem. His face flashed like lightning, and his eyes flamed like torches. His arms and feet shone like polished bronze, and his voice roared like a vast multitude of people.

¹² His eyes were like flames of fire, and on his head were many crowns. A name was written on him that no one understood except himself.

² As the men watched, Jesus’ appearance was transformed so that his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became as white as light.

³ And he gave a great shout like the roar of a lion. And when he shouted, the seven thunders answered.

⁴ When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Keep secret^[a] what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down.”

¹³ And standing in the middle of the lampstands was someone like the Son of Man.^[a] He was wearing a long robe with a gold sash across his chest. ¹⁴ His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And his eyes were like flames of fire. ¹⁵ His feet were like polished bronze refined in a furnace, and his voice thundered like mighty ocean waves. ¹⁶ He held seven stars in his right hand, and a sharp two-edged sword came from his mouth. And his face was like the sun in all its brilliance.

¹⁷ When I saw him, I fell at his feet as if I were dead. But he laid his right hand on me and said, “Don’t be afraid! I am the First and the Last.

⁹ I looked, and each of the four cherubim had a wheel beside him, and the wheels sparkled like beryl.

²⁴ As they flew, their wings sounded to me like waves crashing against the shore or like the voice of the Almighty^[a] or like the shouting of a mighty army. When they stopped, they let down their wings.

¹⁶ The wheels sparkled as if made of beryl. All four wheels looked alike and were made the same; each wheel had a second wheel turning crosswise within it.

¹⁴ And the living beings darted to and fro like flashes of lightning.

²⁰ the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst.